Princess Diana narrowly escaped her fate on the night of August 30, 1997. By some circumstance, her driver, Henri Paul, had decided he was intoxicated, and refused to drive Diana and her company to the apartment in Rue Arsène Houssaye. In order to avoid the paparazzi, Dodi Fayed decided to stay at the Hôtel Ritz, and arrange for a special escort. At 1:30 a.m., their car arrived, Diana and Fayed where accompanied by Trevor Rees-Jones, a member of the Fayed family's personal protection team, who sat in the front passenger seat. they proceed down the Place de l’Alma underpass, where a white van cut them off, nearly sending them into the side wall. The driver, Joesph Courimer, managed to regain control over the vechile in time to prevent a head-on collision. The car was damaged on the side whe